The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 5

a Se — prisoners by atask system impos, THE DAILY WORKER PRISON LABOR ~ GOODS HIT BY ~ NEW CRUSADE Ex-Prisoner Leads Fight . Cpl in Illinois By TOM TIPPETT, Federated Press Staff Correspondent, SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 18.—Kate Richards “O’Hare has started another erusade, It is a crusade against the prison factory trust. After spending 14 months in the Missouri state peni- tentiary as a political prisoner, Mrs. O'Hare has first-hand information on how prison-made merchandise is man- ufactured, how the contracts are ne- gotiated with political crooks and how the market is flooded with working class wearing apparel tainted with the prison task system. Mrs. O'Hare is in Illinois with a staff of field workers campaigning against the sale of prison-made mate- rial, She exposes the prison trust be- fore trade unions and gets a boycott pledge. Then she secures from the merchants a signed agreement against handling prison-made materials. Reliance Has Monopoly. Mrs. O'Hare says the Reliance Man- ufacturing company has a monopoly on prison contracts. Its headquarters is at 212 West Monroe St., Chicago, Milton F. Goodman, president, This concern manufactured in 17 prison sweatshops in 1923 more than 16,000,- 000 work shirts. More than 6,000,000 were Big Yanks and the other 10,000,- 000 comprised the other three Reli- ance brands, Black Beauty, Milton F. Goodman and Honor Bright blouses for boys. “All of these prison-made garments are sold in competition with the prod- ucts of free labor, (are purchased by farmers, workingmen and their wives, who would revolt at wearing the products of sweated convict labor,” says Mrs. O’Hare. “Cleverly worded advertising conceals the fact that these articles are prison made. This adyertising of the vicious prison fac- tory: trusts comes into millions of American homes in the pages of re- spectable publications, daily newspa- pers, farm journals and . magazines published by fraternal societies,” Huge profits are gouged out of the by ignorant and degenerate prison foremen. Failure to complete the task is punishable by prison torture, sometimes ending in death. Convict Goods Flood Market. Flooding the market with convict labor products puts free labor out of business. “The gil who sat next to me in the prison workshop in Jefferson City, Mo.,” Mrs. O'Hare relates, “was in the last stages of syphilis and tubercu- losis. There was a great open sore on her mouth from which the pus dripped. This girl was making baby unionalls, and she would use the gar- ments to wipe this pus from her face, and toss them into the pile of finished goods.U She coughed and sprayed her work with tuberculosis germs. These disease-laden garments went into the commerce of the United’ States under false labels, and ,were sold to inno- cent purchasers to put on the bodies of little children.” so mu If you believe we are everywhere to read your friends, THE DAILY WORKER, ' Enclosed please find 4....... -Makin “One advantage possessed by the strikers is that they have an energetic and fearless daily newspaper devoting extensive space to the conflict---THE DAILY WORKER” Nothing that has happened in labor history in many years has meant to the workers everywhere as the establishment of THE DAILY WORK The Daily Worker Every Day _ Order a bundle of sample copies to give away in your shop, factory or office and among Get a supply of Subscription Blanks 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL subscription to THE DAILY WORKER, N@me: sssossrsssmsesonsssessesemmmapeerssssnssssnsnsnontnsessnuavapanunssssssssenaaseeeseesessersseesseeerssnusssassensngees Street: csesssessrorsraneverrsomneneneressomnnesssnnnneserssonsssseessssesssesesssesess FUMES ssssssssseseeeessemessnsess By Mali— fern HME vedi ls 1 YOM srssamesseumanners: $6.00 : * - 8 months $3.50 ; 3 months .., ++:$2,00 IN CHICAGO “ By Mall—_ VYOME ssssscsstrrscrseseensseo88,00 iienaldhiceticuiag: AMER talks | & months $4.80 3 months $2.60 : FSA RONEN CRADLE OF LIBERTY ROCKS IN STRIKE OF BUILDING WORKERS BOSTON, June 18,—Fanueil hall, two publié high school buildings and the fire alarm signal station, all un- der construction or repair, are on the strike list of the Boston United Building Trades council. Over 1,500 union men are out because the contractors for the city refuse to follow the statute and pay the union scale, as provided by the “prevailing wage” clause. TAMMANY MAN HAS BAIT FOR LABOR FAKERS Al Smith Puts Them on Industrial Council (Special to the Daily Worker.) ALBANY, N. Y., June 18.—Appoint- ments to the Industrial Council of the state labor’ department were an- nounced by Governor Al Smtih with expressions of his satisfaction at the re-establishment of the Industrial Leaders Grabbed on Council after three years banishment, The new law permits the Industrial Hoary Law in Canada Council, composed of five employe and five employer representatives, to sug- gest to as well as to advise on request, the industrial commissioner, who serves as chairman of the council. Smith, already endorsed by many New York labor officials, anticipates Communist and Labor By JOHN ROBUR ’ (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) TORCNTO, Can., June 18.—A curi- ous instance of interference in the educational campaigns of labor has arisen here. Three labor speakers, who took up collections at their meet- ings, have been arrested on a charge of receiving “alms.” The law which has b en invoked by the police is the old law against vagrancy, which for- bids the collection. of “‘alms” without @ certificate from a clergyman or two justices of the peace. The three alleged “vags” are John Young, president of the trades and la- bor council, Harvey Murphy, an active;}board of Building Trades unions’ rep- labor worker, and Walter Swift, a;resentatives, New York City; Thomas member of the Communist Party of|J. Curtis, the Bronx, vice-president of Canada. They intend’ to fight’the case,|the New York State Federation of La- claiming that the rights they are as-|bor; Jeremiah Ryan, Binghamton, sec- serting are exercised unchecked in|retary of the Central Labor union of England. Binghampton; John M. O'Hanlon, Troy, Secretary-treasurer of the New York State Federation of Labor; Mrs. Sarah A. Conboy, Brooklyn, interna- placed well-known A. F. of L. loaders on to represent labor. Al Wants These. The council appointees are as fol- lows: Representing employes: John J. Halkett, Brooklyn, chairman of the Caucasian Workers Have Live and Strong tional sccretary-treasurer of the abo aniza i United Textile Workers. L bs Org tion Representing employers: _ Maxwell S. Wheeler, Buffalo, head of legal de- partment of the Larkin company; Frederick H. Swan, Rochester, vice- president. of the Robeson Rochester corporation; Charles M. Winchester, Albany, president of the J. B. Lyon Printing company; Michael Friedham, New York City, president of B. Alt- man & Co. ; William F. Kenny, Brook- lyn, a building contractor. Barbers Show Their . Class Solidarity By Aiding Ruhr Miners P. Z Fi Id NEW YORK, June 18.—The appeal al ti sent out by the International Work- rty ge om to ers’ Aid-of New York in behalf of ‘the miners of the Ruhr has received its Give Bosses Battle first response by a contribution of $50 SMITHERS, W. Va. June 18.— {made by the Independent Journeymen Farmer-Labor candidates from con-| Barbers’ union of Brooklyn. gressman down are in the field in fhe| The executive committee has pur- sixth congresional district of West |chased the stamp books which the lo- Virginia. “We are forced to represent |cal committee has gotten out especial- ourselves and put men in office who /|ly for the children of the Ruhr strik- do not ‘have to answer to Logan coun-|ers. The Journeymen Barbers’ union ty coal operators, but to the people | was the first of the organizations ap- alone,” declared Charles Massau, for-|pealed to to respond to this cause. All mer state chairman, Farmer-Labor | workers should give the appeal of the party, to the nominating convention. International Workers’ Aid attention + + in their unions and see that their or- MORGANTOWN, W. Va., June 18.—|ganization purchases the stamp books A full Farmer-Labor party ticket has|and contributes promptly. been nominated for the second con- gressional district of West Virginia, MOSCOW, June 18.—The trade unions of the Caucasus at their annual sassion, held this week, report that 95 per cent of all industrial and office workers are organized, and 50 per cent are working under collective agreements. The trade unions have in all 230,000 members, of whom 103,- 000 are in industry, 50,000 in trans- port, and the rest in office employ- ment. Fifteen per cent are women, the small number accounted for by the Tact Nay RGR ition are oil and gentse mining, while the main population is Mohammedan. West Va. Farm-Labor Send in that Subscription Today. History —From “The Nation,” May 14th. America’s Great Labor Daily f doing a big work help by getting the workers CHIGAGO TRB BRASS GHECKS ON RUSSIA AGAIN Berlin Correspondents “Sold” on Czarist Yarn By LOUIS P. LOCHNER. Federated Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, Germany, June 18,—A new episode has just been written here for the “Brass Check” in connection with a news story concerning the Russian ambassador to Germany, Krestinsky. The dispatch was dated Moscow, and contained the “news” that Krestinsky ; had put an ultimatum to the executive committee of the Communist Interna- j tional to the effect that if the embas- ;Sies and legations were further to be burdened with carrying on bolshevik further support for his campaign for! Propaganda in the countries in which the Democratic presidential nominee|they were on the strength of the re-establish-| Would resign from the diplomatic sery- ment of the Industrial Council and has| ice. accredited, Krestinsky The story is not only made of whole cloth but emanated, not from Moscow, but from Berlin. The yarn was launched by a Berlin correspondent of an American metropolitan paper, who got it from an ex-army officer of the Russian impertal army, who acts as a “tipster” to this correspondent. The story did not originate with the army officer either. The “tipster” in iturn relies for his information upon the anti-bolshevik emigre dailies ap- pearing in Berlin in the Russian lan- guage. One of these, Dni, invented the story. (The Chicago Tribune was among the American papers that ran the false story. No retraction has been noticed in its columns.) Send in that Subscription Today! BOOK REVIEWS THE REAL IRELAND, By Esther Lowell. THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, By Liam O'Flaherty. (Boni and Liveright.) Unsparingly real'is this story of a young Irish Catholic curate in the Arran Islands and a delightful relief from all the fantastic fairy stories of the Emerald Isle that have been hurled ‘upon the credulous public for so long. The struggle of the curate between his umcrushed love for the priest's niece, Lily, who has been “satisfac- torily” married off to a wealthy old devil from South America, and hi: devotion to the Lord is the main theme of the book. 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DORFF-SOCIALIST REICHST AG, SO SESSION ADJOURNS By LOUIS P . LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, Germany, May 28. —(By Mail.)—The opening PROTEST ALIEN’S "DEPORTATION TO _ HOSTILE NATION \Defense Asks Hughes’ sion of the second Reichstag since the founding of the republic) * * broke up in the midst of a singing contest between thé Commu-| Aid for Russian nists, who with sixty lusty- voice chanted the “Internationale,” and the ultra-reactionaries and nationalists, who answered the | challenge by shouting “Deutschland, Déutschland Uber Alles’” at the top of their voices. case a Socialist named Bock, ai swinging the big bell on the* speaker’s table... He soon found, however, that the only way he could swing the bell was to do it in the rhythm of the “Interna- tionale,” The result was that it sound- ed more as though he were playing an accompaniment to the song than as tho he were calling for order. Prevent Reichstag Action. Whereupon someone behind him handed him a high silk top hat which contrasted strangely with the red cotton handkerchief with which the veteran socialist had just wiped his brow. Solemnly and stately Bock put the “lid” on and ostentatiously left the speaker's desk as a mark that he had adjourned the session. The Commun- ists had won their point: they had broken up the meeting. It makes a difference whether a par- ty is represented by seventeen depu- ties as during the ‘first Reichstag, or by sixty-two as the Communists now are! Their tactic will openly and avowedly be that of making parlia- ment impossible. They served notice in the first session that the rules of order adopted by the house will not exist for them. Epstein, a longshore- man from Hamburg, calmly continues to smoke his pipe despite the admoni- tions of the pages of the house to de- sist. Demand Release of Communists. The first clash came within twenty seconds after the chairman had called the house to order. The Communists immediately demanded that, -before the house do gnything else, the eight Communists who are either doing time or being detained for examination by the Bavarian @d¥ernment be voted their liberty. The socialists said they would support a motion for their lib- eration, but that the house must first elect its officers and constitute itself for business. The “voelkische,” or swastika Ludendorff-Hitlerites, sup- ported the Communists because one of their men is also doing time. Be- fore a vote could be taken, the sing- ing contest.ensued during which the chairman left. Voices were not the only thing brought along by the Communists. They were also in part armed with sirens and whistles, which they em- ployed with particular vigor when the names of Bismarck, Ludendorff and Tirpitz were called. Also, they laid upon the table of the house a pair of blue spectacles said to be a replica of those used by Ludendorff when he fled to Sweden in disguise during the first days of the revolution; a glove stuffed with paper so as to make it look like a human hand, which was offered as a reminder of Scheide- mann’s dictum on the eve of the sign- ing of the Versailles Treaty, “Rather shall my hand shrivel than that I sign the treaty;” and a bouquet of flowers for the Muich socialist leader Auer who, when Count Arco, the counter- revolutionist, was ill sent a bouquet to the latfer as a “purely human act” having nothing to do with his political sympathies. Socialists Wane. The ranks of the socialists’ have been greatly thinned as a result of the last election. They have just ane hun- dred members instead of the 170 of the last parliament. Tho they are the second largest party of the Reichstag, they give one the impression of be- ing “all dolled up and no place to go.” They have at no state of the negotia- tions over the coming cabinet suggest- ed that the socialists be a part of the coalition. This makes the old party wheelhorses pretty sore, but the more radical element is very much pleased While the singing progressed, the pre- siding officer, by custom the oldest man in the house, and in thi t first tried to call for order. by TYPO REACTIONARIES WIN ELECTION OVER MILD PROGRESSIVES INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 18— James Lynch, of Syracuse, N. Y., has a majority of 2,629 votes over Charles Howard in the presidential contest lof the International Typographical union, according to complete unoffi- cial returns today on the typographi- cal election. Other officers elected were: Seth Brown, Los Angeles, First Vice President; Austin Newson, New York, Second Vice President; J. W. Hayes, Minneapolis, Minn., Secretary Treasurer. All. the officers elected ran on the “Administration Ticket” with Lynch. WORKERS PARTY MEMBER VICTIM OF FRAME-UP Attempt to Railroad Co- Operative Leader By ARVID NELSON. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SUPERIOR, Wis. — Eskel Ronn, manager of the Co-operative Central Exchange, was arrested by local au- thorities on Tuesday morning of this week upon receipt of a telegraphic message from the sheriff of Alger county, Mich., ordering that Ronn be taken into custody. Ronn was imme- diately locked up in the Superior city jail. His attorney later learned over the telephone from Munising, Mich., that Ronn was charged with being complicated in the bombing of a pri- vate store building, located at Chat- ham, Mich., which nccurred last Oc- tober.. At first Ronn’s arrest was ‘as much a puzzle to himself as it was to all his friends and acquaintances. On the following morning the sher- iff of Alger county, Mich., arrived in Superior and it was disclosed that Ronn and Jack Hautaluoma, manager of a Finnish co-operative store at Chatham, Mich., were jointly charged with exploding a bomb last October under a certain store and postoffice located’at Chatham. Hautaluoma had been placed under arrest in Michi- gan. Upon arraignment in municipal court in Superior, after the Michigan sheriff's arrival, Ronn was liberated under $1,000 cash bail, pending extra- dition proceedings seeking his sur- render to the Michigan authorities. Correspondents of the “Tyomies,” local Finnish daily, report that Jack Hautaluoma has obtained his release under $1,000 bail in Michigan, These reports also state, that a number of other members of the Eben, Mich., Finnish Workers’ party local have been arrested and oth summoned for a hearing before the authorities, who have also seized ail the minutes and records of the local. The authori- ties, it is reported, charge that a mo- tion was made and passed at a cer- tain meeting of the Eben Finnish lo- cal to blow up the building of the pri- vate storekeeper, and that Ronn from Superior addressed this meeting. at this. Speaking as a leader of this more radical element, Tony Sender said to your correspondent: “The best thing that can now happen is for the bourgt parties to form a purely bourgeois government including the nationalists. Then the class lines will be clearly drawn, I am glad our party is not wanted by them for a coalition,” The socialists have declared in a manifesto that they see in the accept- ance of the Dawes’ committee recom- mendations the only solution for the woes of Europe, but they insist that the burdens arising therefrom for the German people must be distributed in @ more “social” way. Full Ticket Nominated, NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 18.— William Mackenzie of Stamford, and a member of the Carpenters’. Union was nominated for governor by the State Farmer-Labor party convention, Ronn has never attended nor ad- dressed any meetings of any kind in that locality, altho he is affiliated with and active in all the labor or- ganizations in Superior. © Ronn and his friends in Superior see in this charge of the Michigan au- thorities a plot of some kind against the rising co-operative movement in the central states, with which it is hoped to link up the Co-operative Cen- tral Exchange, a co-operative whole- sale association of the co-operatives, and the movement of the radical farm- ers and workers in general. Police Grab Brown Again; Accused Them of Using Goldfish The police again have Dr. Spencer Brown in custody and are holding him incommunicado. This time Brown not Robert Mackenzie as formerly an- nounced. Candidates for presidential electors, congressmen, and for alt siate offices were nominated also. J. Ballain left as delegate to St. Paul. is held in connection with the $3,000,- 000 mail robbery near Roundout, Ill. Brown was recently convicted in connection with another robbery and his chief defense was that the police had “goldfished” him. At that time the | (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, June 18.+A protest on the of Mi el Bilokumsky, recently deported from the United States, has been sent to Secretary of te Charl E. Hughes by the na- tional def 2 committee, New York division. vention of the secre- case Int was deported | Biloku on May 27 on 1 the department of labor, v ld have sent him jto Rus portation to Rus- sia is ir at present, Bilkum- sky was thrust into hostile Roumania by the United Ste uthorities. The national se committee pro- tests that if Bilokumsky is left in Roumania or in any other country that jis hostile to Ru , he may either be jimprisoned or murdered.” The pro- |test adds further:' “In view of the fact that the life or liberty of one of those whom we are defending is placed in jeopardy by a department of this country we deem it necessary to call your attention to the fact and ask you to intervene in behalf of said Michael Bilokumsky, feeling sure that no such act on the part of the labor department would meet with your ap- proval.” Austrian “‘Workess Aid German Miners Striking in Ruhr Austrian workers, who up to the present time have refused to make a special collection for the striking Ruhr miners, have finally joined in with the International Workers Aid, according to the American office, in action for the locked-out workers. Dr. Julius Dempler, Prof. Carl Gruenberg, Coun- sellor Victorstain, Dr. Max Alder, Dr. J. Bach, and Dr. Margaret Hilferding signed the the call sent out by the Austrian Social Democrat Party for assistance to the German workers, The strike of -the-coat miners-in-the— Ruhr and in upper Silesia and Saxony continues unabated with hundreds of workers out. In Germany, the Interna- tional Workers Aid has made collec- tions even among workers in the Ruhr district that are still employed. The Czech workers have sent 20 boxes of food. Children have been distributed between Belgium and Holland. The American Committee has sent $5,000 and another $5,000 is on its way. All workers of New York continue to support the campaign and dispose of the local special stamps for the chil- dren of the striking workers issued by the local office at 208 E. 12th St, The Poor Fish says: | see where these confounded Soviets are trying to turn the calendar upside down. They cannot give us peace and quiet, what we need, we that work so hard. 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